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The day before the Chernobyl disaster

The day before the Chernobyl disaster

Update: 2019-12-161
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Disasters don’t just happen. Like anything in life, there’s usually a buildup. In the case of the Chernobyl disaster, the series of failures stretched back more than a decade. But what happened the day before the explosion?
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